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Pre order system is bust, I dont even bother looking at it anymore.



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Azerth said:
doesnt this actually mean titanfall is better? its beating a known ip on a console with more people


Titanfall's hype is built off of the game's developer pedigree. It might as well be a sequel to Call of Duty. Its also an FPS which for all intent and purposes, is the "it" genre to be in right now. Infamous has its past games, and the fact its a sandbox game going for it right now....but then again what isn't a sandbox or sequel these days? Infamous is carried a lot more on it's own merit I think.



      

      

      

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kitler53 said:
forevercloud3000 said:
kitler53 said:
i honestly think titan fall i going to disappoint a lot of people (sales wise). online multiplayer only will hurt it.

infamous looks amazing though to glad to see it get the props it deserves.


Dissapoint sounds a bit harsh but I have noticed something. When customers come in asking whats the next big thing for XBO the first thing that comes to mind for me is Titanfall. Almost everyone has heard of that game by now but most don't realize it is multiplayer only. I mention this as a positive for them(Shooter single players are usually filler) yet they actually react differently than what I would expect. I personally refuse to buy any game that I cannot enjoy to some degree by myself. 

I do on the other hand think it will perform just fine. EA kinda sucks at advertising most things but for something as big as this they will pull it together. I imagine heavy advertising and minimum of 4million sales.

Infamous is definitely a lot more popular than most realize. Sony has an underlining reason for releasing games for free on PSN+. Its the F2P method, get the game or predecessor in as many people's hands as possible to create future interest or purchases. Infamous 2 would have sold a lot better if not put as a freebie, but allowing so many ppl to play it means a lot more people know what Infamous SS is and many will want to experience that as well. Infamous SS's views on Youtube are the highest out of all the exclusives.

If I were to geuss, I think Infamous SS will sell 3-4 million as well, if its REALLY good than maybe 6mill LT.


4 million across all platforms?  maybe.  on xbone?  no. 

 

online multiplayer games needs an active community to play against or it isn't fun.   titanfall will launch when xbox is less than 5M consoles sold so the most it could hope for at launch is ~2M; a very repectable attach rate.  a far greater attach rate than i believe possible when guys like me (who won't buy an online only game) simply won't buy it.  single player isn't th filler to me,.. multiplayer is the filler which on most games i don't touch.    ...and as nearly all online game's communities go bust within a month or two of launch i absolutely believe titanfall's community will too fail soon after launch.   ..and with it so does titanfalls sales legs.    

i said disappoint.  i mean disappoint.

Well yea, I meant across all platforms.

You have similar tastes to me. I feel like I am getting a gimped package if a game is totally dependant on multiplayer. Someone brought up a good point a few posts back. What is Titanfall going to be like with split fanbases amongst PC/360/XBO? Do they actually have connected servers? because so far MS has not had a single game that allowed crossplay in that manner. So if it doesn't then most might opt to get it on PC and 360 as more ppl are likely to have those versions. I had a similar case in store today. Mother was returning XBO versions of COD Ghost because her two sons want to still be able to play with their friends, whom won't be getting XBO. That could prove a big issue for Titanfall's staying power.



      

      

      

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bananaking21 said:
MajorSeizure said:
Titanfall is going to disappoint a lot of people it's online only, and fact is, a lot of people simply don't by online online shooters, many still play BF, Call of duty just for SP, more then play online. There are not 10 millio playing cod online not close. It is not going to be a huge seller.

Destiny will be vastly bigger.


lol, you know that Destiny is an online game as well right? 

Destiny will be a bigger seller, mainly because it will be on playstation as well as xbox.

ONLINE ONLY..............



Mad55 said:
Titanfall on xbox one is gonna kill infamous in sales in my opinion. It is a bit disappointing that it's multiplayer only, but most people who play call of duty and battlefield play it for the multiplayer first.

True and of those people, they mostly still own 360s. Majority of players for Titanfall will be on 360. 

 

OT, this doesn't surprise me, already more people own the PS4 so more game preorders and most people still own a 360 so if they buy Titanfall, they'll buy it on that, no matter how much MS want.



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Second Son will also have a PS4 bundle wich is bound to sell a lot. I cant wait for this game to come out need to play it now. Titanfall is a shooter tough and therefore itll get above 9 reviews regardless of quality (not saying tis gona be bad, but you guys know this is a fact)  and sell like theres no tomorrow.



Titanfall is multiplayer only which is a huge handicap. Also, Xbone install base will be fairly smaller than PS4 install base by March. This isn't even a contest.



Infamous is something like the first real NextGen Game for the PS4 that isn't a Shooter(KZ) or Driving Game(DriveClub)
People are more interested in something were they can explore.

Titanfall will be someday the next CoD - The 360 Version will hold the One Version back though.
It is probably mostly aimed at the same people who buy CoD and those usually don't play much beside it.
Titanfall(and CoD) aren't reasons right now to get a 500$ Console if they can have the exact same game on the console they already own.
With the sequel going Multiplat it will turn into a sales beast.



forevercloud3000 said:
kitler53 said:
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4 million across all platforms?  maybe.  on xbone?  no. 

 

online multiplayer games needs an active community to play against or it isn't fun.   titanfall will launch when xbox is less than 5M consoles sold so the most it could hope for at launch is ~2M; a very repectable attach rate.  a far greater attach rate than i believe possible when guys like me (who won't buy an online only game) simply won't buy it.  single player isn't th filler to me,.. multiplayer is the filler which on most games i don't touch.    ...and as nearly all online game's communities go bust within a month or two of launch i absolutely believe titanfall's community will too fail soon after launch.   ..and with it so does titanfalls sales legs.    

i said disappoint.  i mean disappoint.

Well yea, I meant across all platforms.

You have similar tastes to me. I feel like I am getting a gimped package if a game is totally dependant on multiplayer. Someone brought up a good point a few posts back. What is Titanfall going to be like with split fanbases amongst PC/360/XBO? Do they actually have connected servers? because so far MS has not had a single game that allowed crossplay in that manner. So if it doesn't then most might opt to get it on PC and 360 as more ppl are likely to have those versions. I had a similar case in store today. Mother was returning XBO versions of COD Ghost because her two sons want to still be able to play with their friends, whom won't be getting XBO. That could prove a big issue for Titanfall's staying power.


you nailed it.   the split userbase will kill this game.  

if titanfall had been announced for xbone's 2nd or 3rd year i would have a ton more confidence in it.  but as a launch window title...



Pre-ordered the collector's edition. Can't wait to get this game.



 

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